For Earth Day, gardeners can help ensure vegetable, fruit and grain seeds remain available to everyone by ordering a set of open-source seeds from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Gardeners and farmers can save open-source seeds after harvest a...

A week after the Heartbleed OpenSSL vulnerability wreaked havoc across the web, the conversation is shifting from reaction to reflection. The discussion is no longer about what to do now, but what can be done to prevent another Heartbleed from happen...

The Internet bug known as Heartbleed was introduced to the world on New Year's Eve in December 2011. Now, one of the people involved is sharing his side of the story. Programmer Robin Seggelmann says he wrote the code for the part of OpenSSL that led...

Raspberry Pi made waves in recent years as a computer that you can buy for just $35. It's tiny, though, and its built-in capabilities are limited. Is there anything in the same spirit, but with more actual hardware? That's pretty much the question Ch...

The U.S. government is fixing a lesser known problem with its online insurance marketplace, Healthcare.gov. No, the website still isn't working properly for most people who are shopping for insurance, but its administrators updated the site's source ...

The newest video in our Ask a Dev series discusses what's more important for an aspiring developer: a computer science degree or a great portfolio. Andrew Frederick, an iOS engineer, explains that both a degree and professional experience are useful ...

Back in the Age of Exploration in the 1400s, the world lived and died on the maps cartographers and adventurers crafted. Relying on nothing but their own ingenuity, grit and know how, this was one of the world's first crowdsourced projects. Fast forw...

The spare-time online activities between a son, a father, and his friend resulted in a $1 million prize from the Pentagon's mad scientists from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The winners, Eric Nees, his father James Nees and h...

Google took a stand of sorts against patent-lawsuit theater Thursday with its new Open Patent Non-Assertion (OPN) Pledge. As explained by Google's Duane Valz, under the OPN Pledge, Google promises "not to sue any user, distributor or developer of ope...

Defense Distributed, a project for open-sourced 3D-printable guns, obtained a federal license to manufacture and sell firearms. The organization made the announcement on its Facebook page Saturday with a picture of the license and a caption saying, "...

Those of us who have watched way too many episodes of The Jetsons probably always wished we had a Rosie the Robot to help make our meals, do the laundry and feed the dog. But Rosie probably couldn't mix a killer Mudslide or Cosmopolitan like this new...

Drones are here to stay, which is now a thought that hardly anybody doubts. The technology is getting cheaper, its applications are endless, and soon new regulations will finally open the door for them to fly freely. Liberalization is going to be clo...

If you have ever dreamed of designing a tank, now's your chance. The Pentagon's futuristic arm, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), wants your help to develop a next-generation amphibious armored vehicle. DARPA is about to release ...

The team that manages Data.gov is well on its way to making the government data repository open source using a new back-end called the Open Government Platform, officials said during a web discussion Wednesday. The governments of India and Ghana have...

TED Global is underway in Edinburgh, Scotland, with a lineup of more than 70 speakers set to offer their visions of “radical openness” (the theme of this year's conference) across disciplines as diverse as corporate governance, global security and ed...

NASA collects and publishes thousands of data points every month: images of lunar craters, spectrum analysis of far-away stars, rocket telemetry and so on. Now, the space agency wants to create apps that let people do a variety of things with those d...

The World at Work is powered by GE. This new series highlights the people, projects and startups that are driving innovation and making the world a better place. Name: Mifos Big Idea: Mifos is an open-source, back-end operating system -- built and ba...

Following in the footsteps of Storify, a new free, open-source online timeline tool is innovating storytelling on the web. Timeline, created by Zach Wise, a multimedia journalist and journalism professor, was developed in partnership with the Knight ...

A technology that helped start a global movement is now being put into the hands of the people. TextSecure, an Android app that encrypts text messages and is popular among activists in many countries, is now open source, thanks to Twitter. Twitter ac...

WebOS may be more tenacious that we thought. The Linux-based OS with a rocky history has officially risen from the ashes of HP's TouchPad bungle to be reborn as an open source project. HP made the announcement Friday, in the wake of increasing specul...

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